Amy's mother has bought her brand new jeans to wear. However, five-year-old Amy refuses, insisting that girls wear only dresses. This may be an example of __________
a) gender constancy
b) autonomy
c) a gender schema
d) a gender identity
Answer: c
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A psychologist teaches Matt to put his hand in his pocket whenever his habit of cracking knuckles occurs or is about to occur. Training an individual to engage in a behavior that is incompatible with the habit behavior is referred to as ____________ training
a. contingent response b. awareness c. operant d. competing response
If someone with anxiety has problems with controlling their emotions when confronted with anxiety-inducing events or thoughts, they have underactivity in the ______, which also engages in self-monitoring and future planning.
A. default mode network B. ventral attention network C. salience network D. frontoparietal network
A researcher investigated whether a person's mood influences another person's mood. The researcher randomly divided the participants into three groups. Participants in the first group interacted with a happy person. Participants in the second group interacted with a sad person. Participants in the third group interacted with an emotionally neutral person. After the interaction, the researcher
measured how happy the participants were. What are the conditions of the independent variable in this study? a. happy, sad, neutral b. happiness of the other person c. happiness of the participant d. there are no conditions of an independent variable—this is a correlational study
Which of the following is most consistent with the concept of a crisis as defined by James Marcia?
A) When Imani failed her calculus test, her parents grounded her for two weeks and imposed a requirement of two hours of supervised study every school night until the next exam. B) Since she was a child, Lila had planned to become a physician when she grew up. Recently, however, she has become very interested in physics, and now she is evaluating related career options such as engineering. C) Torrential rains in the Midwest caused major flooding, and thousands of people were displaced from their homes and lost their possessions and livelihoods. D) For the past two years, Juan has had thoughts of suicide, and recently he was diagnosed with depressive disorder.